The Peter & Jane books were published by Ladybird. I remember having to read these at school when I started in 1970. I got through them at a bout twice the rate of everyone else because my mother had taught me to read before I started school.

think it was janet n john but i remember when u advanced to the big books ie...two sentences on one page the first was through the garden gate,remember it bcus i was first tin the class to start it,wasnt it great when u didnt need your tin of spellings...lol..

I remember having similar books at school. Red books to start then you moved onto green books. Don't know if they were Peter and Jane, or indeed Janet and John, but they were soft back. One of the red ones had something to do with a cauldron rolling down a hill or something. Ring any bells? This was the early '80s.